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Bunnymally
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2 months ago

Stuck on Vacation

So, I haven't posted in a hot minute. I rage quit playing since october, when I kept getting stuck when trying to send my sim home from vacation in China. I'm not sure what is happening, but it has taken the joy out of the game for me. It will get stuck on the loading screen where you can click on the things for points. Yes, I've tried not clicking it at all. It gets it almost all the way loaded then just.... doesn't finish. I can't switch families to play games in that neighborhood and it was my FAVORITE neighborhood. My only other option is to MAYBE save the neighborhood itself and make another copy? but I don't know if that will just recreate a corrupted file since one of my sims is stuck on a permanent vacation... 

help?

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  • Bunnymally​  To be clear, is the current issue that your sim can't return home, or are you unable to load the save at all?  Do you use mods, or are you willing to add a few?  I can make some recommendations, including a mod that's specifically created to prevent travel-related issues.

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    Bunnymally
    Rising Rookie
    2 months ago

    I've used mods before. I tend to be wary of it, but I hate this travel glitch... It might be worth a shot. 

     

    It lets me save progress in china, where the chick basically lives now.... but if I go to "edit town" and try to switch families or edit a lot (which I stumbled on on accident) and save, it says "can't save unless in original game" or something. I'll have to restart my whole daggum computer to pull it up again -_-;  because at the moment, it's just... frozen. and I cannot even close the window manually. 

  • Bunnymally​  Then I would suggest installing NRaas Traveler, along with ErrorTrap, Overwatch, Register, and MasterController.  The first four do their work without any need for player input; MC does nothing at all unless you use it to issue a command.  More information is here:

    Sims 3 - Common Game Fixing Mods - Hero Approved | EA Forums - 8291748

    Once you load the save with the mods installed, let the game clock run for a few sim-minutes, then click the base game map tag and select NRaas > MasterController > Town Options > Reset Everything.  The reset can take a few minutes to run, depending on the speed of your computer.  When it's done, you'll get a notification.  Let the game clock run for a few more sim-minutes, then send your sim home.

    If this doesn't work, repeat the process, except with some additional steps to lower the stress on the game engine during the transition:

    • Empty out your sim's inventory as much as you're willing.  Having a few items is fine, but not a hundred.
    • Run the same MC reset again, and "save as" to create a new save.
    • Exit to the Main Menu, turn all the graphics options to the minimum.  Disable in-game shopping and the interactive loading screens, then quit to desktop.
    • Delete the five cache files: CASPartCache, compositorCache, scriptCache, simCompositorCache, and socialCache, even if you have before.
    • Reload the save, wait a few sim-minutes, and try to send your sim home again.


    If this doesn't work either, let me know.  (Although I'd try it twice just in case the game is right on the edge of working in this context.)  There's an approach that may allow you to get your hometown back at least, although you'd lose the vacation progress.

    As a side note, I wouldn't recommend mods that might damage your saves, let alone your computer.  But the more popular NRaas mods have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, if not more, and have been proven to be safe and reliable.  They're still supported too, now on their own site.

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    Bunnymally
    Rising Rookie
    2 months ago

    at this point, I'm not as worried about vacation progress. though I'm not sure if I'll take vacations at all after my town nearly getting swallowed like this... 

    Okay, thank you for the reassurance on the mod safety. I was concerned about installing them as I have done no mods this run through (though I used to do them all the time in the sims 2)

    be back in a bit, gonna do the things, try some stuff. I'm always working on a project in another site entirely so if I get distracted, that's where I went XD But I'll bounce back

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    Bunnymally
    Rising Rookie
    2 months ago

    oof. apparently, the domain use for the links on that have timed out (it was posted 5 years ago, not surprising). is there another reliable place I can download these NRaas mods?

  • Bunnymally​  The links all work fine for me: they point directly to the relevant download pages on the NRaas site, nraas.net.  The ModtheSims link works too, at least on my end, but if your browser is objecting to it, NRaas also has an install guide for mods:

    https://www.nraas.net/community/How-To-Install

    If your browser doesn't allow any of these links, try a different one.  I know for a fact that downloads at NRaas are still in full working order because people report outages on the site whenever they happen, which is very infrequently.

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    Bunnymally
    Rising Rookie
    23 days ago

    I am not sure what you mean by "game map tag"

  • Bunnymally​  I meant the base camp map tag; I'm not sure why I wrote "game" instead.  When in Map View, each lot has a tag, and the commands for the NRaas mods show if you click City Hall in a homeworld, or base game in a WA vacation world (or the admin building in the University world).

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